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We've Achieved Nirvana ... Right?

• Relations are surely the answer!
  • Simple, high-level model for programmers
  • Easy to distribute data and parallelize queries

• But what was the question?
  • Sometimes difficult to model "real world" data
    • Entities and relationships (versus tables)
    • Variance among entities (versus homogeneity)
    • Set-valued attributes (versus normalization)

• Demanding new database applications
  • New applications bring new data types
  • Complex objects are problematic
    • "A relational database is like a garage which forces you to take your car apart and store the pieces in little drawers..."

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